SPOILERS!!!
There are new developments in the investigation, but Patrik is nowhere near to find the little girl’s murderer.
First of all, there are some doubts about Niclas. His alibi for the time when Sara was killed is not clear. First, he claims he was with his lover, but the woman, Jeanette Lind, went to the police to tell that she had lied because Niclas had asked her to do so. Then a anonymous phone call alerts them about Sara’s brother’s medical records, and Patrik then finds out that Albin, the little boy, has been treated for injuries, burns, and broken bones too many times given that he is only eight months old. When Niclas is brought to the station for questioning, he refuses to talk and won’t tell Patrik where he was the day his daughter was killed and he won’t say anything about his younger’s son’s injuries. Yet, as they don’t have any evidence of his involvement, he is allowed to go free.
Kaj, the neighbour, is arrested when the police from Goteborg tells Patrick that his name has come up in connection with a ring of child pornography. The police arrest him, take his computers and search the property. What they find is Sara’s jacket in the cabin where Morgan lives, but I think that is no indication of anything untoward as we know that Sara used to come bothering Morgan in his cabin. At the police station Kaj denies all the charges.
Another thing that comes to light is Frida’s secret. Frida was Sara’s best friend, and Sara asked her to keep a secret. Yet, when Frida asks her mother about what worries her, Veronica convinces her daughter to tell her secret to the police. What Sara swore her friend into secrecy was that an old man had scared her, taken her arm and shaken her, and according to Frida, he had said something that Sara hadn’t understood, something like Double Pawn, and when Patrick tells his team about it, Annika, the receptionist, tells them that what the man was probably saying was “Devil’s Spawn”. The problem is that the man that Frida describes is not Kaj. Yet, when Martin, Patrik’s partner, tells Charlotte about it, she knows who it is. And we do know as well. It must be Niclas’s father.
There is also some strange findings when the forensic team analyse the water found in Sara’s lungs and stomach. There are traces of ash and granite, and it is believed that Sara was forced to swallow ash. What a horrible way of dying. Who is this mad man or woman! Then a woman from the town Mia was doing some purchases and left the pram with her baby outside. Hearing her baby wailing, she rushed outside, and found her son covered in soot and her mouth covered in ashes. Mia calls the police, and Patrik retrieves the shirt that the boy was wearing, sure that it must be the same ash that Sara was forced to swallow. The forensic team also discovered that the ash was old, fifty years old or more, and there were traces of tissue, meaning that it might have come from an animal or a person. I really don’t understand what the meaning of this is.
In the parts about the past, Agnes gives birth to twins, two boys. Yet, she doesn’t show any affection towards them and as the years pass, she gets more and more horrible. She doesn’t care about the children or Anders. The poor man has to work all the hours and even do the housework and look after the children. Anders love his children with all his heart, and despite Agnes’s attitude, he still thinks that things might be better. He has plans, so when the boys turn four, he tells Agnes about his plans. He wants the four of them to move to America, and he has even bought the tickets for the ship. Agnes is horrified as she doesn’t want to travel to a strange country with the ballast that her family is.
Then a few days later when she is out shopping, she returns and sees a thick cloud of smoke. Her house and some others are burning, and Anders and the children have died inside. Agnes seems shocked but unfeeling. I wonder if the fire was fortuitous or somehow Agnes started the fire on purpose. I wouldn’t put it past her. After being left alone, her father appears and begs her to return home with him. Yet, Agnes doesn’t want another unreliable man in her life again, so she tells him that she is going to America. Her father gives her money to upgrade her ticket, so Agnes leaves her past behind in luxury and hiding those four years forever. Her father finances her life in America where she enjoys parties, men, and a good life. Yet, there is a big crisis in Sweden and he loses all his money, and then he commits suicide.
When Agnes is 42, life is not as much fun as it used to be when she first went to America. She knows that there is a house in her name in Fjällbacka and some money her father left her, but the condition to gain access to that money is for her to return to Sweden. So she decides to do so. When she disembarks in Goteborg, she finds a little girl crying, and when the girl fails to tell her where her parents are, Agnes decides to take the girl. As we know, she has always taken everything she wanted, and this time it seems it wont’ be different.
Now I wonder if maybe Lillian is that little girl. Before this encounter between Agnes and the little girl, I was considering that Lillian might be the connection with that past. Lillian shows the same callousness as Agnes even though Stig thinks she is a good, warm woman. I can’t see any goodness or warmth in them, and she shows almost no feeling about the death of her granddaughter. So does this mean that Lillian killed her granddaughter? Why? And what is the meaning of the ashes?
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